http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/7/30/andro...It was previously worse than it is now. Evans also showed at another time that in June 2012 there were 223m active Android devices, but 270m were activated from June 2011 to June 2012. That's 53m devices--20% of the ones sold--that were either replaced by other ones in those sales or were just left to collect dust. It suggests that a fair amount of them had a device lifetime less than a year.Reply

A fair amount. My family of 5 contains 4 Android users, and we had a good run with our phones. Though my sister needed hers replaced twice (dropped and misplaced in public) so I guess we're on the bad side at 33% (6 phones, 4 still kicking).Reply

Thx for the heads up. My friends been complaining about her battery forever, her saving grace has been a really nice battery case. I directed her to the source link and it ends up being that shes eligible for replacement.Reply

Interestingly enough, just in the past couple of weeks mine has started to experience this. Its serial is listed in the "impacted" range. I know I have crap signal at work, but from a full charge (or at least >90%) with maybe 45 minutes of FB, some failblog, email and texting at work (with 1 bar LTE) and maybe 30-45 minutes of wifi connected similar use at home in the evenings the next day I am waking up to 30-40% charge remaining and I have zero background apps running.

Just a couple of months ago similar activity would result in maybe 60% battery life remaining the next morning. It is all of a sudden like the battery hit a wall.Reply

How about no, read what you must do just to get the battery replaced:-------------------------------------------------------To prepare your iPhone 5 for the battery replacement process, please follow the steps below:

Back up your data to iTunes or iCloud Turn off Find my iPhone Erase data and settings in Settings > General > Reset > Erase all Content and Settings----------------------------------------------------------------------------Why should I have to erase my phone and turn off Find my iPhone for a battery replacement??? Are they actually replacing the phone?Reply

If you choose the Apple store option you may indeed have your device replaced as not all Apple stores in all parts of the world can do battery replacements in-store. Getting a brand new scratch and scuff free phone wouldn't be such a bad thing though, would it? Reply